I'm not short on strength and have (many times!) picked up a fully loaded BMW 1200 GSA but it all depends on having the purchase points on a bike.
I dropped my XT660Z Tenere in a gorge I named 'Jaws of Jaffar' which leads to the famous Cirque de Jaffar in Morocco. Even though I unloaded the soft luggage I just couldn't lift it as there was no point low enough at the rear—a taller rider might have managed to get leverage.
No worries—even in the remotest part of Morocco, someone will be along shortly to help, and sure enough a couple of hours later a group of silver-haired French walkers came along the gorge and helped me lift it.
Later I fitted pannier rails and found these made lifting the Tenere child's play.
Jaws of Jaffar (riding a Hondas XR400 a couple of years earlier): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naICBtD6tL8
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